Dear Dr. Meg, 

I love you! I listen to your podcasts now and they are great, keep them up please!!

My husband and I think we are doing a pretty good job with our 11-year-old daughter. We are raising her in our Catholic faith; we send her to a good private Catholic school, and she’s already an accomplished vocalist and dancer. But more importantly, we are raising her to be a kind, loving, Christian child of God. I will add we are older parents – I couldn’t have children and was pleasantly surprised with pregnancy at 41!

That being said, we did everything we could from keeping the television that my father sent her out of her bedroom (when she was seven!) to monitoring things that she watches in TV or music she listens to, but the wave of social media has overcome her!

I let her get an Instagram account earlier this year while I was trying to home school her to save some money. I thought it would be a neat way for her to still stay in touch with her former classmates. And informed as I am, I guess I didn’t realize it still operated as social media….